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I'm a big fan of ghost stories and haunted house stories. I really liked the "In a Dark Place" (2006) because as a remake it went in a different direction of one of my favorite movies of the Horror genre, "The Innocents." (1961) Which has to be my favorite ghost-story adaptions of all time. Both are based on Henry James's "The Turning of the Screw" which I re-read every couple of years because of it's delightful ambiguity. I'm still not sure if the ghosts were real or if the governess was mad. The Innocents lends itself to the first interpretation and In A Dark Place to the second. Both are chilling.

For me to really love a horror movie or psychological thriller, the ending has to hit me with the notion of an on-going horror or it has to be final--ie, the hero gets away but is horribly scarred by the experience or the hero dies/becomes the monster. Some of the modern horror/psychological thriller movies I feel delivered that ending I was lusting for were: The Descent, Jeepers Creepers, Session 9, Shutter Island, Rec, Paranormal Acitivity, Wolf Creek, Sinister, The Uninvited, Insidious, the Burrowers, The Ring, the Grudge, In a Dark Place, The Darkness, and the Woman in Black.